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Opinion: Photographing Syria's War

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... I ... the ... welcome to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... CI is the start of a sharp al-Assad has been waging a brutal war against civilians now ... for years and yet opposition forces are still managing to sneak out ... videos and photographs of the violence ... are on assistant books editor so ever Mari has obtained an exclusive set of photographs ... is here talk about an ounce or up ... but you've got these fun addressed in the Syrian national movement ... I think they can ... they got them through a network of contacts within the Syrian military police ... these are says that the defectors are people who are opposition is in a mindset and I've ... been sneaking these photos ... to the outside world and the data from a period of two thousand eleven to twenty thirteen at pretty great personal risk to themselves friends are awesome ... okay now we can display these photos are far too graphic can you give us a sense of what they look like ... you know Mary the this is really the stuff of nightmares of the photographs this ... show of bodies of detainees who are creamy ... Amy ceded their demands are released and suggesting for starvation they all have bruising abrasions ... eyes are gouged out of jobs and dislocated it to her and so ... they can feel the administration though it doesn't seem to be changing its policy toward Syria despite ... all this evidence it still keeps coming and improving mass wonder ... why ... the opposition still ... complains that ... despite get the ministrations promises they've not received ... in any sort of needed ... in a military sense that could ... change the game ... militarily and that in fact in your times recently reported ... that the of the missed ration was aware of these is the existence of such says photos ... are as early as November but the good and bad they didn't alert the outside world why not ... probably because it can be you they were about to head into these negotiations in Geneva to ... him and it didn't ... mean ... we can only assume they thought ... they would be seen the photos would ... the sum offered to negotiate these the peace negotiations between the atmosphere in the regime and the prices of the opposition now and you know so they're a lot of people within the Obama administration you have ... spoke for a spoke out for a long time about genocide by one day pushing the president to see changes his approach ... to make them even Pursell Auntie fats most appalling ... thing about this is this in an administration that staffed by people like ... Samantha Power whose whose claim to fame is that she wrote a book about the and did the moral imperative to stop mass slaughter and mass torture ... and events that are going on and yet I it doesn't seem to ... to register ... for them the more the disconnect between their own moral stance in the past in the way the did the missed ration has been conducting its Syria policy well it's disgraceful ... the videos are up online if you do want to see them ... assistant books editor so ever Mari the fuselage is fragile ...